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City police have laid second-degree murder charges against one youth and one adult in the fatal stabbing of a man in Brentwood early Saturday.

CALGARY - The ejection of unwanted guests from a house party that had been advertised on social media likely led to a stabbing that killed one man and seriously injured another, say police.

Meanwhile, a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old young offender have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the incident at a home in Brentwood.

Officers were called to the residence in the 5000 block of Brisebois Drive N.W. at around 3 a.m., and found two men with stab wounds.

Both were taken to hospital, where one of them later died.

Police have not named the victim pending an autopsy, but he has been identified by family as Brett Wiese, a 21-year-old University of Calgary student who was a guest at the party.

His family said he was stabbed trying to remove the party crashers.

The other man, also in his early 20s, remains in serious condition in hospital.

Wiese’s family was notified on Monday around lunchtime that charges were laid, and are pleased with the developments.

“We believe it’s good and we will follow those charges through,” said Brett’s uncle, Kip Wiese. “We are focused on healing and grief right now as a family, but it’s good news to have that process done.”

Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus of the homicide unit said over the course of the night, the party attracted between 60 and 100 guests, most of them university students.

But five individuals who were not invited later showed up. Police were called at around 12:30 a.m. and spoke with the unwanted guests, who eventually left, Andrus said.

A few hours later, just before 3 a.m., nine people came to the house — including some of the five people who were told to leave — pulling up in two separate vehicles. At least four of them entered the home.

Wiese was fatally wounded and another guest was seriously hurt. Andrus said the second man could have died had it not been for the “great work” by responding paramedics and medical staff.

“We believe the motive is a targeted attack in the sense that a number of individuals returned to the party in response to the earlier incident. In other words, that these individuals were asked to leave the party,” Andrus said.

Two knives were recovered at the scene and are believed to be the weapons used in the attack.

The party was advertised over social media, said Andrus, warning that “you cannot control who has access to that information.”

“In this case, we had a number of people who did get the information, decided to attend uninvited. That led to an incident where they were asked to leave. In response to that incident, we had people return to the party and we now have one person who is deceased and another one in the hospital suffering from a serious injury,” he said.

Police don’t believe the accused killers knew the victims, said Andrus, declining to comment on whether the two accused offenders knew each other.

He said there’s no indication the party had been out of control.

Police were not familiar with the home, which was being rented out by a group of university students who had been there for about nine months. He said the residents had even gone to their neighbours to inform them about the party.

“They were acting responsibly as far as dealing with their neighbours,” Andrus said.

Late on Saturday, a 17-year-old young offender, who cannot be named, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

The following day, Mitchell William Harkes, 19, of Calgary was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and four breaches of various court orders.

He is expected to appear in court Tuesday morning.

Police still have several search warrants to execute and are waiting for the forensic crime scenes unit to be available to conduct further forensic examination at several other addresses, Andrus said.

A funeral for Wiese will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at the Ponoka Stampede grounds and is open to the public.

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